On 1/9/06, Tom Brown tom.brown@goodtechnology.com wrote:

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I'm using the camE package from Dag's repo with a QuickCam Pro 4000. I do have X, although camE is purely being used to ftp the images to another location. I can't really tell for sure whether the local X is important to that setup, but I suspect not.

OK thanks - how do you 'capture' the images?

Here's my /etc/camE.conf - this captures a frame every 5 seconds and ftps it off to another server:

[ftp] host = REMOTEHOST user = USER pass = PASS dir = /home/webcam file = webcam1.jpg tmp = imageup1.jpg local = 0 passive = 1

[grab] device = /dev/video0 width = 640 height = 480 delay = 5 input = webcam quality = 80 title_text = 1 text = %d-%m-%Y %H:%M:%S ttf_dir = /usr/share/fonts/bitstream-vera/ text_font=VeraMoBd/7 title_font=VeraMoBd/8

framerate = 1 pwc_wb_mode = outdoor

# image settings (0-100) defaults are 50 colour = 60 brightness = 50 contrast = 50 hue = 50 whiteness = 50

(obviously REMOTEHOST, USER and PASS have been changed for my security!)

and also here's my modified /etc/init.d/camE script:

#!/bin/bash # # camE This shell script enables the startup of camE # # Author: Seth Vidal skvidal@phy.duke.edu # modified from the yum startup script by Tony # # chkconfig: 345 98 02 # # description: Enable startup of camE, a frame grabber & ftp tool # processname: camE # config: /etc/camE.conf #

# source function library . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/camE

RETVAL=0

start() { echo -n $"Enabling webcam: " /usr/local/bin/setpwc -x /usr/bin/camE -c /etc/camE.conf >/dev/null 2>/dev/null & touch "$lockfile" && success || failure RETVAL=$? echo }

stop() { echo -n $"Disabling webcam: " killall /usr/bin/camE rm -f "$lockfile" && success || failure RETVAL=$? echo }

restart() { stop start }

case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart|force-reload) restart ;; reload) ;; condrestart) [ -f "$lockfile" ] && restart ;; status) if [ -f $lockfile ]; then echo $"Webcam is enabled." RETVAL=0 else echo $"Webcam is disabled." RETVAL=3 fi ;; *) echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|reload|force-reload|condrestart}" exit 1 esac

exit $RETVAL

You'll probably need to delete the setpwc line, since that's an extra tool I've copied in as a binary from a previous incarnation of my box, and I'm not quite sure where to get it from at the moment. It just resets the colour balance of the webcam, and may not be relevant for your model anyhow.

After these 2 files are in place, it's just a service like any other, so use 'chkconfig camE on' and 'service camE start'. Keep an eye on your /var/log/messages, if the camera is dropping frames regularly then the logfile can get big.

-- Cheers,

Tony

On 1/9/06, Francesco F franco@inpe.unipi.it wrote:

On 09/01/2006 12.59, Tom Brown wrote:

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OK thanks - how do you 'capture' the images?

Three years ago, with RH8, I used webcam program (it was in v4linux o xawtv). Look this url: http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/linux/webcam.html

I used this too- but when xawtv was dropped from redhat I had to search around and then discovered camE as a standalone package which was a drop-in replacement - the config files are the same format.

-- Cheers,

Tony

Jean Lee wrote:

Hi all,

Does anybody knows where I can found an eclipse 3.1 package for Centos ?

Please don't hijack threads on a mailing list, start your own thread.

http://jpackage.org/ has RPMs for eclipse.

Ralph

Phil Schaffner wrote:

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:49 -0600, Ralph Angenendt wrote:

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Jean Lee wrote:

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Hi all,

Does anybody knows where I can found an eclipse 3.1 package for

Centos ?

Please don't hijack threads on a mailing list, start your own thread.

http://jpackage.org/ has RPMs for eclipse.

Close - 3.0 not 3.1,

I need glasses. I misparsed 3.0.1-1 as being 3.1 :)

Ralph